Joseph Seals

Joseph Seals (1980-10 December 2019) was an American JCPD detective who died in the line of duty while heroically attempting to thwart the 2019 Jersey City shooting at Bayview Cemetery in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Biography
Joseph Seals was born in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1980, and he joined the JCPD in 2006; he also started a family with a wife and five children. He worked in the city's Cease Fire Unit and became the JCPD's leading officer in removing guns from the city's streets, and he first gained press attention in 2008 when he and his partner saved a woman from a sexual assault inside her own home on Christmas Eve. On 10 December 2019, he noticed a stolen U-Haul truck linked to a murder in Bayonne the previous weekend at Jersey City's Bayview Cemetery, so he approached the truck to investigate. As he approached, one of the suspects got out of the truck and shot him in the head, fatally wounding him. The suspects, David Anderson and Francine Graham, fled the scene immediately after shooting Seals, and they proceeded to carry out the 2019 Jersey City shooting at the JC Kosher Supermarket, claiming 3 more lives before being gunned down.